Federation Joins Briefing
On Human Services
Top professional staff from three of
world Jewry's major service organizations
met with leaders of the Jewish Federation
of Metropolitan Detroit for a briefing on
overseas human services issues.
The session came about as an out-
growth of the changes taking place
between the national Jewish organiza-
tions and federations across North
America regarding the funding and
assessment of overseas needs.
The Israel and Overseas Committee
of Federation heard from representatives
of the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI)
and Joint
Distribution
Committee (JDC).
Also participating
April 1 at the Troy
Somerset Inn was
Jim Lodge, director
of ONAD
(Overseas Needs
And Distribution)
Penny Blumenstein
for the United
Jewish
Communities.
UJC, headquar-
tered in New York
City, is the national
fund-raising and
social service orga-
nization fcr the
federations and
responsible for dis-
tributing their non-
local allocations.
Lodge challenged the committee to
come up with a plan for how Detroit
chooses to make its future allocations for
helping Jews in Israel and around the
world. The committee will submit rec-
ommendations to the combined
Federation and United Jewish
Foundation board of governors.
Historically, since 1938, the United
Jewish Appeal was the vehicle that raised
money from North American Jews for
worldwide needs. The Detroit
Federation's overseas allocations to UJA
were divided between two designated
partners: 75 percent to JAFI and 25 per-
cent to JDC. The merger of UJA and
two smaller bodies into the new UJC
organization in 1999 reflects the reality
of a changing fund-raising world, where
federations expect more say about which
overseas beneficiaries receive their locally
raised campaign dollars and how that
money is spent.
The JAFI and JDC representatives
reported on some of their priorities and
initiatives in Jewish communities
throughout the world. Some of those in
which Detroit has taken a lead role
include JAFI's Partnership 2000, a peo-
ple-to-people enterprise between Jews in
North America and
Israel; a Jewish
renewal project in
Kiev, Ukraine,
focusing on sup-
port to that city's
Jewish Community
Centers, a series of
family retreats and
Hillel Student
Michael Horowitz Center; and JDC's
Parents and
Children Together
(PACT) program
in Netanya, Israel,
making possible
various opportuni-
ties for Ethiopian
preschoolers and
their families to
prepare the chil-
Stuart Hertzberg
dren for entering
school.
JDC attendees
were Michael
Schneider, JDC
executive vice presi-
dent, and Michael
Novick, JDC exec-
utive director of
strategic
develop-
Michael Schneider
ment. JAFI was
represented by
David Sarnat, executive vice president of
JAFI's North American Section, and
Jane Sherman of Franklin, a member of
the JAFI Board of Governors.
Those in attendance from
Federation included Penny
Blumenstein, president; Stuart
Hertzberg and Michael Horowitz,
chairs of the Israel and Overseas
Committee; and several members of
the committee: Judge Helene White,
Steve R. Schanes, Nora Barron, Heidi
Fischgrund, Paul Zlotoff, Ben
Rosenthal, Jerry Halperin, Dr. Richard
Krugel and Linda Z. Klein.
Federation leaders present were
Robert Aronson, chief executive officer;
Mark Davidoff, chief operating officer;
Howard Neistein, chief planning officer;
Tanya Mazor-Posner, Partnership 2000
director, and Tova Dorfman, director of
Federation's Israel office.
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